Frames of Anime

Culture and Image-Building

Bibliographic Data

ID19985328
AuthorsTze-yue G Hu (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages254
Publication date2010-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFrames of Anime (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHong Kong University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5790/hongkong/9789622090972.001.0001
OpenAlexW2252186295
ISBN9789622090972
Open LibraryOL29570275M
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. This book analyzes the "language-medium" of this expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. The book's research, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. This study also provides insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers that were interviewed

Animation · Anime · Art · Japanese culture · Japanese studies · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Studio · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Animated films · animation · Anthropology · asia · civilization · Cultural · Culture in motion pictures · History and criticism · Japan · Japanese influences · Japanese Motion pictures · Motion pictures · Performing Arts · Social Science

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